Valery Navarrete

Biography

Valery Navarrete is a consultant, facilitator, and ICF-certified coach. Her specialities are strategic plans and theories of change that centre community.

Valery works at the intersection of the big and the small. She excels at big picture thinking, and supporting people to find clarity in complexity. She also understands that relationships are critical. She helps people to embrace how even small shifts in our connection with ourselves and others can be leverage points for transformative change.

Valery’s twenty year career as a health and social sector executive has spanned levels of government and crisscrossed the not-for-profit, charitable, community, hospital, mental health and addictions, and social innovation sectors.

Valery has held senior roles in organizations including CAMH, the YMCA of Greater Toronto, Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, and the Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care and Children and Youth Services. She is also a passionate volunteer and has held front line and board level roles with a number of social impact organizations.

As a mixed-race, cis-gendered, Latinx woman-of-colour, and care partner to a family member with disabilities, Valery’s personal experiences at the intersections of privilege and oppression are a driving force behind her efforts to work with others to build healthier, more inclusive organizations, communities, cities, and societies.

Core to all of Valery’s work is a passion for connection. She believes deeply that we need to recentre interdependence in order to thrive.